The May Car Update (2007)
Steve Jones takes a look at the world of automobiles and specifically his new Prius hybrid.
2007-05-29
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Editorial
Where Did The Women Go?
A guest editorial today from Atieh Jones wondering where are all the women in IT?
2007-02-14
124 reads
Would I encourage my daughter to pursue a career in IT?
A guest editorial today from Lynda Rab, PASS board member and new mother.
2007-02-13
46 reads
The Old Boys Club
Steve Jones looks at some of the issues with gender in the workplace and reminds everyone that they need to respect each other.
2007-02-12
21 reads
The Certification Debate
Steve Jones talks about the ne value of the new certification program from Microsoft.
2006-11-20
581 reads
The Test of Time
A change here at SQLServerCentral.com and Steve Jones gives some thoughts on the impact of this for the future.
2006-11-13
115 reads
Zap World
Steve Jones brings us a car update that talks about a new car that doesn't need gasoline to run.
2006-11-01
50 reads
2026-02-16 (first published: 2006-10-06)
359 reads
Blogs
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Advice I Like: In 100 Years
By Steve Jones
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
dataMinds Saturday 2026 – Slides
At Saturday the 21st of February I’m presenting an introduction to dimensional modelling at...
Forums
is it true we cant debug c# scripts in ssis anymore under vs
Hi, i'm running vs2022. I'm trying out a c# script that i'd like to...
Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
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Question of the Day
Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
I upgraded a SQL Server 2019 instance to SQL Server 2025. I wanted to test the fuzzy string search functions. I run this code:
SELECT JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
I get this error message:Msg 195, Level 15, State 10, Line 1 'JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE' is not a recognized built-in function name.What is wrong? See possible answers